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Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice in 4K, plus Wind Rises, more catalog Blu-ray, and a word on MGM & Gone with the Wind
All right, a quick update today with a bit more release news...
First up though, we have two more new disc reviews for you today. Tim has checked out Richard Jefferies’ Blood Tide (1982) on Blu-ray from Arrow Video. And Dennis has turned in his thoughts on Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s classic German expressionist tale The Golem (1920) on Blu-ray from Kino Classics. Do give them a look.
Also, we’ve just posted a new update of the Release Dates & Artwork section here at The Bits thanks to our own Russell Hammond, and it’s full of all the recently-announced Blu-ray and 4K titles. As always, whenever you order anything from Amazon through our links, you’re helping to support The Bits and we really do appreciate it.
In other news today, here’s a nice surprise: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is releasing Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice in 4K Ultra HD on 9/1! It looks like two versions will be available: A wide release standard edition and an Amazon exclusive deluxe giftset. You can see the cover art at left and also below. [Read on here...]
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- Beetlejuice 4K
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- Sherlock Holmes 4K
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 4K
- The Wind Rises
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- Gone with the Wind
Cap America: Winter Soldier & Civil War 4K in April, Apocalypse Now 4K, BumbleBee & Samsung quits 4K player market
All right, today’s Bits update offers 4K Ultra HD news, some of it good and some of it bad, as well as some good standard Blu-ray news...
The good news first: We’ve learned from our studio and industry sources that Disney is bringing Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War to physical 4K Ultra HD in April. Our retail sources suggest the street date is likely to be 4/23. This makes sense as it’s the same week that Avengers: Endgame hits theaters. Keep in mind, Captain America: The First Avenger hits the format next Tuesday, 2/26. It appears that Best Buy will have exclusive Steelbook packaging and Zavvi is already taking pre-orders on a Captain America Trilogy 4K set.
We’ve also learned from our sources that essentially all of the other Marvel Cinematic Universe titles not yet released on physical 4K are coming over the next year or so. This includes Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ant-Man (2015), and Doctor Strange (2016). We would expect the next batch to arrive with the home release of Captain Marvel, somewhere around Q2 2019. [Read on here...]
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- Marvel Cinematic Universe in 4K
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4K
- Captain America: Civil War 4K
- Apocalypse Now: 40th Anniversary 4K
- Samsung quits the 4K player market
- Bumblebee 4K
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
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Criterion’s January includes Breakfast Club, plus Blade Runner: 2049 pre-orders, Twilight, Olive & more
Morning, folks. We’re going to be working on more reviews here at The Bits today, but we do have some interesting release news to report for you before we get started on those.
First, it appears that whatever was going on to delay the Amazon pre-orders for upcoming 4K titles from Warner seems to have been resolved. You can now pre-order Blade Runner: 2049 on 4K (and also Blu-ray – keep in mind the title hasn’t officially been announced, so there’s no street date yet and we don’t know if there will be the 3D and deluxe SKUs in the US) and also Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – one of the four remaining Potter titles due on 11/7. We expect the others to appear soon and we’ve updated our 4K Ultra HD Release List too. [Read on here…]
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Cars 3 & Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy on 4K (but not on Amazon), plus Interstellar & more GKids Ghibli BDs
Morning, folks! Hope you all had a great weekend. We’ve been very busy here working on new reviews for you.
Along those lines, here’s my thoughts on Warner’s Peanuts Holiday Collection in 4K Ultra HD, Lionsgate’s American Gods: Season One on Blu-ray, PBS’ The Farthest: Voyager in Space and The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick on Blu-ray, GKids’ new Blu-ray editions of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s animated Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away, and Tim’s look at Arrow’s new A Fish Called Wanda: Special Edition and Robert Englund’s 976-EVIL from Sony, both on Blu-ray. Whew!
Rest assured, we’ve got more new reviews coming this week, including a bunch more 4K titles, Baby Driver and Spiderman: Homecoming included. So be sure to watch for those. [Read on here…]
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- Harry Potter 4K preorders
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- Cars 3 4K
- The Dark Knight Trilogy 4K
- Batman Begins 4K
- The Dark Knight 4K
- Interstellar 4K
- GKids
- Studio Ghibli
- The Cat Returns
- My Neighbors the Yamadas
- Cyborg: Collector's Edition
- Scream Factory
- Release Dates & Artwork
- Peanuts Holiday Collection 4K review
- American Gods: Season One BD review
- The Farthest: Voyager in Space BD review
- The Vietnam War BD review
- A Fish Called Wanda: Special Edition BD review
- Spirited Away BD review
- Ponyo BD review
- Princess Mononoke BD review
- 976EVIL BD review
- Terminator 2 4K delay
The Red Turtle, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter & Fifty Shades Darker all officially announced
Tim has posted a pair of new Blu-ray reviews today, featuring his thoughts on Lew Lehman’s The Pit from Kino Lorber and Jeffrey Delman’s Deadtime Stories from Scream Factory. Both are worth a look for fans, so do check them out.
I’m also going to be working on more new 4K reviews this afternoon, so watch for them to be posted here on the site later today and tomorrow morning. We’ll mention them here in tomorrow’s My Two Cents column.
By the way, I wanted to invite you all to follow The Bits on Facebook and Twitter if you don’t already. More importantly, I wanted to invite you to follow me personally (Bill Hunt) on Facebook and Twitter, if you’d like as well. Do keep in mind, however, that on my own personal pages I tend to talk more about other things of interest to me than just Blu-ray, 4K, and DVD specifically – films, great books, science topics, spaceflight, history, technology, and the like. You’re always welcome to communicate with me that way, particularly via Facebook Messenger, as e-mail these days seems to be inundated with junk and SPAM. Maybe I’ll see you there. [Read on here…]
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- Sheriff Hoot Kloot
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- Deadtime Stories BD review
- The Pit BD review
- The Red Turtle
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- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 4K
- Fifty Shades Darker: Unrated Edition
- The Paradine Case
- Arrow Academy
- The Sorrow and the Pity
- The Taishio Trilogy
- Aquarius
- The Space Between Us
New Rogue One date, Sing official, Trainspotting 2 4K in the UK, Ocean Waves & classic catalog BD news
All right, today is a work holiday for many here in the U.S., but we do have some interesting new release news for you all regardless.
First up, new signals from retail sources (including Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and others) are suggesting that Disney and Lucasfilm are planning to release Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and DVD on 4/4, instead of the date previously listed by retailers which was 3/28. Until this weekend, Best Buy was taking pre-orders with no date listed, but that’s now been pulled, suggesting that an official announcement may be coming any day. Stay tuned for official details.
Speaking of Disney, the studio has confirmed that it’s currently working on new Walt Disney Signature Edition Blu-ray releases of Fantasia and Bambi. The latter film has been out of print on Blu-ray here in the States for a number of years now, so that’s certainly good news for fans. You can learn a bit more here. [Read on here…]
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- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story release date
- Sing
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- I Can Hear the Sea
- The Vampire Bat
- The Film Detective
- Bambi: Walt Disney Signature Edition
- Fantasia: Walt Disney Signature Edition
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- Another Man's Poison
- Miss Annie Rooney
- Psycho Circus
- Little Nikita
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Criterion’s May slate, Amazon/Disney issues, Ocean Waves & more
We’ve got a pair of new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray reviews for all of you to enjoy here at The Bits today. I’ve given Warner’s The Accountant and Sony’s Inferno a spin on the format, both of which are recent releases, and have a few things to say about each. Do give them a look.
Also today, it’s become fairly clear that Amazon and Disney are having another one of their strange business tiffs that involves Amazon pulling all of Disney’s forthcoming Blu-ray titles off of pre-order. Case in point, Moana, Doctor Strange, etc. This may also be why Disney and Lucasfilm have not yet announced the Blu-ray release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, even though it’s already available for pre-order on other retail sites. While they no doubt have their reasons, these actions are a major inconvenience to both Amazon’s customers and Disney’s Blu-ray consumers, so these two companies should get their act together. [Read on here…]
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- Criterion's May slate
- Ghost World
- Orson Welles' Othello
- Dheepan
- Good Morning
- Jeanne Dileman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
- Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No 2
- Studio Ghibli
- Ocean Waves
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- Never Too Young to Die
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold Complete Season Three
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- The Valley of Gwangi
- The Spiral Staircase
- ESPN 30 for 30
- Inferno 4K review
- The Accountant 4K review
- Disney vs Amazon
Blu-ray News – When Marnie Was There official, plus City of Lost Children, Love & Mercy & more
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All right, it’s been slow news-wise the last couple of days, so I’ve been working on new Blu-ray and DVD reviews. Be sure to watch for those over the next day or two...
In announcement news, Universal has officially set Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There for Blu-ray and DVD combo release on 10/6. Both versions will feature trailers and TV spots, plus a behind-the-scenes featurette on the voice talent. The Blu-ray will exclusively add 2 more documentaries (The Making of When Marnie Was There and Yohei Taneda Creates the Art of When Marnie Was There) and feature-length storyboard version of the film. [Read on here…]
Blu-ray News – BDA to begin UHD BD licensing, plus Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Supreme, Star Wars Saga re-issue & more
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All right, we’ve got some very cool and interesting release news for you today...
But first, our own Michael Coate has posted a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column featuring a look back at Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief in celebration of the film’s 60th anniversary! He’s got release details, plus a great roundtable interview with film historians John Cork, Steven DeRosa, and Martin Hart. It’s a great read, so don’t miss it. [Read on here…]
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- Bram Stoker's Dracula: Supreme Cinema Series
- Star Wars Saga Steelbooks
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Michael Coate
- To Catch a Thief: 60th anniversary
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Studio Ghibli
- When Marnie Was There
- Lonesome Dove
- That 70s Show: The Complete Series
- Diary of a Lost Girl
- BDA begins licensing Ultra HD Bluray
Blu-ray News – Aladdin: Diamond Edition, Casual Vacancy, Ghibli’s I Can Hear the Sea & more
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All right, just a quick update today, but we DO have some pretty exciting news to report...
First, Disney has just set their Aladdin: Diamond Edition for Blu-ray release on 10/13 (SRP $36.99). We know this because Amazon is already taking pre-orders on it. We’re waiting to hear more about the content and extras (we think the official press announcement is a few weeks away yet), but you can see the Blu-ray cover artwork on the left there and you can pre-order it on Amazon by clicking here or on the cover image below. [Read on here…]
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